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sameishness en · NOUN

Etymology

From sameish + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being sameish; similarity; uniformity.
    • Under these compulsions, it is natural that there should be similarity of technique and style, even on occasion a sameishness in content, between avant-garde poetic movements in different countries. 1974, Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom, Quest:
    • The danger for the couplet, a short endlessly recurrent metre, is an effect of sameishness. 1958, Geoffrey Tillotson, Pope and human nature:
    • ' [...] A certain sameishness is wooed, consciously or unconsciously, in the interest of homogeneity.' 1976, Christopher Palmer, Delius: portrait of a cosmopolitan:
    • This is a pity, especially because one has the feeling that all the members are far too well behaved to make their statements with offensive violence — as a result the general impression was that of a rather uneventful "sameishness" … 1976, Apollo
  2. (uncountable) Usualness; normality; familiarity.
    • The gentle sameishness of the milk swishing into the hand-bowl seemed to have soothed the burglar very much. 1904, George Newnes, The Strand magazine:

Synonyms

normality · normaldom · normalness · normalcy (usualness; normality; familiarity)